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clarkeni··on Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles
It does! Very dramatic part of the book.
clarkeni··on CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments
I apologise for questioning if you read the comments.
clarkeni··on CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments
Did you read his comments? I would think it’s more cosmopolitan to support the civilians of both Israel and Palestine than just Israel. It’s not like he showed support for Hamas.
clarkeni··on FTX balance sheet, revealed
It’s 2.2 billion dollars - but it’s using fully diluted value rather than circulating supply market cap.
clarkeni··on Crypto.com Halts Solana USDC and USDT Withdrawals
It's absolutely more of a reflection on crypto.com than the solana blockchain (which is functioning normally).
clarkeni··on On the supposed “nihilism” of the Mango Markets arbitrageur
Unfortunately in crypto transaction limits can be easily bypassed (send more transactions or spin up more accounts).

Some good risk controls suggested here though: https://medium.com/@Austerity_Sucks/thoughts-on-110m-mango-m...

clarkeni··on Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts
Issued by Circle
clarkeni··on Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized
Solana has a higher nakamoto coefficient than ethereum. It’s faster due to higher base validator requirements and technical improvements (such as proof of history, etc). Which makes sense as it’s a newer chain.
clarkeni··on Gaussian Processes, not quite for dummies
What would you use to solve the system? Iterative methods or gradient descent even?
clarkeni··on Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
A good proportion (often all) of C-level insurance executives were actuaries that moved up the ranks. I would say it has quite good advancement opportunities.
clarkeni··on Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
Absolutely, great points.

I think there could be scope to use ML on the pricing side however, while leaving the reserving models explainable to regulators.

clarkeni··on Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major
To offer a dissenting opinion, I have found stimulating work in actuary - having worked in economic scenario generation and market risk modelling.

But I have also had actuarial work that was closer to accounting than I would have liked. Certainly you have to pick your roles carefully - which is perhaps only feasible in large markets.

clarkeni··on I wandered off and built an IDE
@anakic

I have used excel as a data source using VBA before so one problem I had there that I'm curious how you approached was how to automatically determine data types? IIRC the ODBC engine in VBA scans a set amount of rows to guess. Are you doing anything different?